Certainly the A’s went out and improved their rotation this off-season, but as they look to compete against the rest of the AL West they don’t win every comparison.
For your Opening Day starter would you rather have Luis Severino or Jacob DeGrom? Advantage: Texas. For 2025 would you sooner have Jeffrey Springs in the rotation or Framber Valdez? Springs is exciting to have, but the Astros have the SP you’d choose. Would you trade JP Sears for Logan Gilbert if you had the chance? I think you would.
The A’s can’t even boast the division’s best overall rotation front to back, as the Seattle Mariners can lay claim to one of the better rotations in all of baseball.